The role of Active Directory has changed in the cloud era. What used to be the central service for access to every resource has now become one of many directory services in use, including Azure Active Directory. As more businesses lean into cloud computing, mergers and acquisitions, and consolidating their IT environments, it’s natural to
A combination of factors is driving more companies to digital transformations within cloud-based platforms such as Microsoft Office 365. Given that most large enterprises are already in the Microsoft cloud and many of them are currently planning M&A activities, you have a recipe for significant levels of tenant-to-tenant migrations. And with the exponential growth of
In this new “cloud first” world, more organizations are moving to Office 365. While the expectation is that your migration into Office 365 is going to be your last migration for those services, some organizations find they need to migrate some or all their resources into a new Office 365 tenant. Mergers and acquisitions are
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most organizations rushed to bolster the remote work capabilities of their office workers by onboarding them with tools like Microsoft Teams. While some enterprises provided significant enablement efforts to get their employees productive with the new tools, many more have not done much beyond making Teams available for use. According
As more organizations adapt to remote work options, supporting employees will require more than just providing tools and enforcing policies. With many employees suddenly working from home, there are things an organization can do to help their teams remain productive without increasing cybersecurity risks. While employees in this new remote work situation will be thinking
Active Directory (AD) is the backbone of your enterprise Microsoft infrastructure, providing authentication and authorization for every critical resource across your environment. Maintaining the health of your production AD environment is key to its performance, availability and security, and also crucial for preventing roadblocks to significant IT changes like adding new applications, network upgrades, cloud
Day One of your merger or acquisition is in the books. You pushed hard to integrate your identity and messaging so that your users could start collaborating right out of the gate. You’ve set things up so that users can look each other up in a shared directory, send emails back and forth, schedule meetings,
Notes and Domino has been an incredibly powerful and useful enterprise platform for several decades and may, or may not, continue to flourish under new ownership by HCL. “We believe the time is right to divest…” — IBM’s Senior VP of Cognitive Solutions and Research Many clients worldwide find themselves having to make a strategic
Laying the proper foundation to migrate 10,000 email users on a weekly basis is much like building a house or in this case a factory. The most successful builders know that planning, staging and choosing the right tools and materials are more important to achieving success than the construction itself. There is no difference when